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Mackay Real Estate

Mackay real estate

Flats and apartments made up 5% of occupied homes in the town of Mackay at the 2021 Census, below the Queensland figure of 12%. Separate houses, at 81% of occupied homes, run above the state's 75%.

  • House 81
  • Townhouse or terrace 13
  • Flat or apartment 5
  • Other or not stated 1
  • Owned outright 26
  • Mortgaged 36
  • Rented 34
  • Other or not stated 4
Homes in Mackay as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$345 a weekQLD $365
Median mortgage repayment$1,716 a monthQLD $1,733
Median household income$1,810 a weekQLD $1,675

A town of houses, with three bedrooms above the state

Separate houses account for 81% of occupied homes in Mackay, above 75% across QLD, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 13%, above the state's 12%. Flats and apartments, at 5%, are below the Queensland figure of 12%. Apartment buildings, these figures suggest, are home to a smaller part of the town's population than across Queensland.

In bedroom terms, three is the count that runs above Queensland: 42% of Mackay's homes have three bedrooms, against 37% statewide. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 19% (22% across QLD) and those with four or more to 37% (39% across QLD), both below. On Census night, 9% of private dwellings were unoccupied, the same as across Queensland.

Queensland, the same way: 75 houses, 12 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Incomes above Queensland, rents below

Mackay's median household income is $1,810 a week, above $1,675 across QLD, while its median rent of $345 a week is below the state's $365. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households in the town, renters or not. The Queensland share is 22%, so Mackay sits below.

Paying off a mortgage describes 36% of Mackay households, above 34% across QLD, and the median repayment is $1,716 a month, below the state's $1,733. Outright ownership is below Queensland, at 26% of households against 29%.

Renting households come to 34%, above 33% across QLD. Of them, 62% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the Queensland figure of 66%. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom.

Mackay's people by age, household and address

The town of Mackay was home to 80,455 people at the 2021 Census. Households here hold 2.5 people on average, the same as across Queensland. The median age, 37 years, is below the state's 38, which points to a population younger than Queensland's as a whole.

When the 2021 Census asked where people had lived in 2016, 49% of people aged five and over in Mackay gave the same address. The Queensland figure is 48%, so Mackay sits above the state. Mackay therefore sits on the side of the state where more people gave the same address for both years.